WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Headlines Into Week 1 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.720 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:22.079 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:27.440 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:33.760 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.800 It is Tuesday, September fifth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.600 number thirty two. Welcome to another edition and the very 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.559 first edition of the two thousand and seventeen season. It 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.920 is The Break. I'm Derek Eaglesons joined by Nick Eatman. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.159 Dial Let's let him go? How let him go? Dave? 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.319 How many firsts do you have in a given year? 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:54.760 This will be the first of the actual like it's 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.400 week one, so this is the first yea of all, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.760 Like the regular season? Yeah, right, the regular season starting today? Right? Right? 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.280 We changed as of today, right? Changed the roster enough 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.039 then we make any claims to change the team or 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.200 anything like that, or yeah we didn't. I'm talking to 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.280 make a trade. I'm talking about us four. Well, we 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.120 get we've made a few changes. We started off and 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.319 Amber joined the show. You joined the show. You were 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.840 not a regular, Yeah, but we've been still. I don't 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.560 know if you're gonna be a regular been doing this 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.279 for six weeks regular. All right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:31.640 thank you whatever? All right? What like? Yeah? Seriously? All right, 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.080 So let's talk some Cowboys football. There's been a lot 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.199 that's happened since the last time we were on the air. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.760 It's good holiday weekend, good Labor Day weekend, but there 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.120 are lots of changes that happened on this team over 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.280 that weekend. Cowboys cut down to fifty three man roster, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.160 then made a couple of other moves. We're gonna get 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.640 into that and talk about some of the guys that 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.840 Cowboys acquired um as well as a guy that they 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.400 released and supposedly is back, and I'm sure Nick has 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.160 a lot to say about that. We'll talk to Kellen 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.520 Moore here at some point um in the or segment, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:01.920 but before we get to that, we do need to 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.560 talk a little bit about Ezekiel Elliott right now. There 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:09.280 have been a few developments in that whole situation. We're 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.920 still waiting on the results of the appeal which happened 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.280 last week. There's suspicion that maybe comes out today from 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.080 what I understand, and you guys can correct me if 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.720 I'm wrong. From what I understand, if there isn't a 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.799 result on the appeal that's issued by this afternoon, then 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.760 Zeke is allowed to play this week. That accurate. That 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.000 is not detailed in writing anywhere in the CBA. Okay, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.280 I have talked to several people, and the best that 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.400 I can come up with is that it's an unwritten 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.160 rule or a gender just wouldn't do that to a 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.480 team agreement. Take that from I was just arguing about 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.320 that with Brian, where he said, well, it's kind of 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.160 an unwritten rule that the league's not going to do 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.480 that to a team, And I said, can you think 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.000 of a circumstance where they might make an exception when 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.840 it comes to high profile running back who's in this 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.720 case and they're trying to keep egg from getting all 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.880 over their face and who they're fighting in court right now? 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.120 So yeah, I mean, take it for what it's worth. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.280 I've seen it out there a million times. As far 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.160 as I understand it, it is a rule that the 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.160 league typically adheres to. But also, as far as I 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.040 understand it, nowhere in the CBA is that written in 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.640 stone that that has to happen. So there's no guarantees. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.400 I mean, they could come back with this thing on 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.640 Friday or Saturday if they want to and say, ezekiel, 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.400 it is now suspended. But I really believe that if 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.640 they're going to do that, they're gonna do it with 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.720 a reduced suspension. I don't believe that they'll just say, oh, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.799 you know what, now, it's yeah, it's six, it's six now. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.000 I think that in order to kind of soften the 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.840 blow a little bit and maybe put the ball in 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:33.959 the cowboys court and Zeke's court, I think they're gonna 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.400 come back and with like a reduced charge. I believe 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.320 it'll be four, I mean two. I believe that they'll 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.920 cut it down to two. Well, all that being said, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.160 at this point, the NFL has advanced the story a 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.680 little bit. They have filed two motions, one to dismiss 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.760 the nfl PA's filed what they filed last week, basically 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.800 saying it's all premature right now they have not had 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.280 a chance to rule on the appeal. They also filed 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.440 a motion to oppose the restraining order that they expect 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:07.320 that the NFLPA will will issue this week, basically saying 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.560 that the court doesn't have a right to be able 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.320 to defer whatever the arbitrator or whatever the commissioner says, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.240 because it was collectively bargaining between the players and in 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.840 the league, and they're using case law here, which in 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.120 the case of Brady, they feel like at the end 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.640 of the day, it was upheld by the courts that 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.720 because it was collectively bargained, courts don't have a right 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.400 to get in between that, and the commissioner is within 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.320 his jurisdiction addiction to be able to make whatever decisions 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.960 he wants. So that all being said, do you think 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.919 any of this changes the prospect, which is what fans 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.400 care about, of whether he's Akuelie is going to play 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.799 this weekend or not this weekend or I mean sixteen games, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.920 because I think that right now we're taking this thing 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.560 week by week. Do you think he's playing this weekend. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.280 I think all signs are pointing in the direction that 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.480 he's going to find a way to be on the 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.440 field this weekend. That's kind of the way I feel, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.240 because one way or the other with all this, and yeah, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:10.000 the NFL filed to block the tro and the restraining 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.839 order that Zeke is filing in Sherman, Texas or has 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.320 filed in Sherman, Texas that will be heard later today. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.520 Even if they do that, he'll just wait for the 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.479 ruling and file again, like that's all that that means, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.520 there's nothing keeping him from doing it again. Basically, the 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.600 NFL was like, hey, you went too soon, like whatever, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.120 so sorry. I just they they're trying to make sure 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.520 it's in the proper a favorable jurisdiction for them. The 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.479 NFL would probably want to hear this in Manhattan, and 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.560 Zeke wants to hear it here whatever. I don't know, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:45.040 but regardless, that thing's gonna get filed, and I gotta 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:49.320 believe even if he ultimately loses it, it's enough of 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.400 an uncertainty that he can't be barred from the field 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.880 by Sunday. I don't think. That's just kind of the 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.400 way I feel about it, because obviously, like I said 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:59.960 last week, the fact that they went as far as 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.919 to file that motion before they even heard the result 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.000 of the appeal tells me that they're going to fight 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.000 it no matter what they hear. And so when you 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:12.000 consider that, I just I it all seems so up 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.799 in the air that I have a hard time thinking 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.800 it'll be resolved in time to block him from the 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.160 field on Sunday. I want he plays. I mean, yeah, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.360 well it's pretty strong with yeah, one hundred percent is 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.000 I do think he will be on the field this week. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.440 I think he plays the next week, and I do 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.760 I personally think he's going to get a two game 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.359 suspension that will start probably in week three. What I 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.640 believe that sounds. That sounds way too tidy for the 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.880 way that this works. I honestly I think that would 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.800 be And you can go back for the Cowboys. Zeke 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.680 still has to deal with you know, his reputation is 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.160 on the line and all of that, But as far 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.359 as for the Cowboys and the people who root for 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.000 the Cowboys, that sounds like the best you could possibly 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.360 hope this to go. But nothing the NFL does gets 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.560 resolved that quickly to the point where by the end 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.160 of September this whole thing will be a distant memory. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:02.880 I don't know that. That's why I like every time 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.440 we talk about Damian Wilson, You're like, well, unless the 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.599 league comes in, the league's not gonna do anything on 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:13.080 Damian Wilson. I mean he's playing until further I mean 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.640 I was thinking about that. We were talking about that yesterday. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.400 I think I wouldn't be surprised any day between now 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.400 and the end of the season to wake up and 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.000 hear that, you know, Wilson or Carol for that matter, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.239 has been suspended, Like there's no they just got around 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.000 a Demontre Moore. There's but there's no rhyme or reason 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.280 to it. Though they resolved Willie Sneed's thing in New 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.600 Orleans in the span of about three months, Like here, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.360 he's off of the first there is three weeks. The 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.640 minute you try to assume that there's a pattern to 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.560 this whole thing is the minute you make a mistake. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.680 It's different for every single player in the league and 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.560 every different offense. And when you're bringing in the real 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.400 deal legal system, like not just the NFL's nonsense, but 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.800 the actual courts, I can't imagine that it's tidied up 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.000 that quickly. The one thing that does concern me a 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.240 bid and I think for everybody who is wanting Zeke 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.520 to play this weekend or whatever point this season, I 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.120 think the one thing that concerns me a little bit 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.200 is that the NFL kind of laid out this thing 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.000 of well, here, we've already litigated this. This is no 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.000 different than the Brady situation. From the standpoint that it 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.040 all comes back to, this was collectively bargained and the 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.720 players bought in. Whatever was collectively bargained was a part 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.640 of that negotiation, and the players signed off on it. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.360 And so we've already gone through court for this. And 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.280 that's what I think fans need to at least be 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.760 thinking about, is there's a possibility that this court, even 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.600 if let's say the appeal comes back and they reduce 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.760 it a little bit, or they don't reduce it, I 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.320 still think the court could say, hey, we're not going 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.160 to give you a stay. We're not going to allow 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.760 you to play while we litigate this. Yes, we'll litigate it. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.040 If they decide to litigate it, we'll do that, but 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.360 we're not going to give you a stay in the 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.600 meantime because the NFL has a point that it has 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.319 already been litigated, and so case law says that they 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.760 have the right to do what they want to do. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.600 So that is a possibility here that it's not just 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.960 a gone conclusion that like Brady was able to play 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.120 while this went through the courts. It's not a foregone 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.280 conclusion that Zeke will be able to play while this 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.960 goes through the courts. I do, and it's really interesting. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.600 I worry I'm gonna get out of my depth because 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.719 I'm not a lawyer. But as far as I understand it, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.640 the criteria to meet this, you know, restraining order to 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.120 this injunction to kind of stave this thing off while 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.360 it plays out. You have to be able to prove 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:29.199 that it's going to hinder your career, reputation, well being, whatever, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.000 And you have to be able to prove that you 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.679 have a legitimate chance of winning. And on the out, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.400 from an outsider's perspective, it seems like Zeke has both 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.480 of those things, just based on what we've heard about 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.880 the mismanagement of the case and obvious I mean, you're 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.000 going to miss six paychecks at the very least, not 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.760 to mention, and you can't get the games, but right right, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.679 and the harm that it does to your reputation, all 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.280 that type of stuff. So from an outsider's perspective, it 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.160 seems like he meets that criteria. You could come back 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.520 and say, though that since the NFL just did this 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.640 with Brady and one because of the collective bargaining aspect 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.840 of it, maybe he doesn't have as much ground to 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.480 stand on as we think he does, because you see 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.840 and read. I spent two hours reading about this over 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.240 the weekend, and it certainly sounds like the term in 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.400 the legal system is reasonable doubt. There's a lot of 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.320 room for reasonable doubt. And even I'm not declaring anybody 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.960 Inno Center guilty, but there's so much reasonable doubt about 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.000 the whole thing. But when you bring it back to 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.200 you're not trying to win a case. It all goes 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.600 back to the NFL and the collective bargaining agreement. And 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.079 at the end of the day, I don't know if 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.040 it's going to be enough to matter. Where's the league 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.200 office again? New York, New York man who played first game, 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.080 New York. You do know who the lead the lead 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.640 person in this from the NFL side of this. Have 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.280 you heard about that story that's out there that supposedly 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.840 she is a season ticket holder for the Niants. It 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.120 is a seed. I don't I don't buy it. I 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.040 know it's a convenient and interesting, and I'm not saying 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.280 it necessarily at the decision. I'm just saying that's that's 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.920 an interesting tidbit in this interesting little tidbit. But you know, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.520 I just when you're tasked with that type of responsibility, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.520 hopefully professionals or professionals. I yeah, I mean, I've never 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.439 met that woman, but I just have a hard time 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.839 believing that, you know, one game in one season is 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.199 going to sway this gigantic, multimillion dollar investigation that she's 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.280 been in charge of for the last year. I don't. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.400 I never bought that, but it is. It is interesting. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.160 At the end of the day, there's a ton more 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.760 that's going to happen in this case between now and 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.520 whenever this thing is resolved. It's just a matter how 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.680 quickly they can move on this, how much the courts 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.520 are willing to get involved. I hope to my heart 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.800 that Eatman is right and by September twenty eighth we 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.840 will and be like, oh no, he served as games 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.600 and it's all over and it's great. But I just don't. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.040 I don't buy that. I think is that the way 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.600 I talk, No, that was just like we're just like, ah, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:54.760 I don't think I've ever seen Nick do though that 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.720 was my That was my everything is hunky dory voice 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.520 like that movie pleasant Ville, you know, like, hey, aber Jay, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.320 here seeks back after two games suspension, and we don't 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.640 have to talk about that anymore. Like that's not gonna happen. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.920 Sounds like you're the media guy from the nineteen fifties, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.559 is something like that. Yeah, the voice scoops callahan. Yeah, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.120 it's gonna be messy and drawn out. That's the only 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:20.040 thing I feel certain about, because that's what it's already is. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.520 It's the NFL's fault for dragging their feet on this 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.920 the whole time, and then to come to find out 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.040 that they don't even have all the right evidence, and 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.760 now they want to kind of hurry this thing up 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.880 because the seasons starting. No, no, they could. I mean 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.960 this has been thirteen months, probably getting close to fourteen now. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.440 We've been saying thirteen months for a while. You feel 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.800 like they could have handed down this thing in April 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.760 or whatever. It's you know, no, he was crying over 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.000 spilled milk. But what a mess. A lot to go 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.080 m Let's go ahead and move on. Let's talk about 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.320 the roster. Cowboys cut down to fifty three, as did 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.960 all the teams throughout the NFL. Lots of things were 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.400 happening and moving this weekend with regards to this roster, 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.559 and we're gonna start first with Kellen Moore in the 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:04.120 quarterback situation. Cowboys make a decision on Friday that they're 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.120 going to cut Kellen Moore. He was a part of 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:10.440 the original cuts. But then yesterday Rico Gathers is placed 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.080 on IR designated to return, and as a part of that, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.599 they were able to bring back Kellen Moore, which I 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.160 don't know, that's not official yet, not official, but that's 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.240 what the expectation is, is that they're going to bring 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.600 any for that roster spot. Multiple club officials have said 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.160 or less, yeah, we're doing that. So explain to the 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.720 fans out there listening why the Cowboys decided to go 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.720 this path with regards to Kellen Moore, because obviously, I 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.920 think I think there were something. I can't explain the 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.960 mechanations or explain the thought process. No, no, not the 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.440 thought process, because I think that that part We'll let 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.880 Nick ran on in just a second. But but I 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.120 do think there is something too. Okay, So why didn't 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.080 the Cowboys just they wanted to go this route. Why 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.720 didn't they just put Rico on IR on Friday and then? 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.200 But I know that there are there are reasons for that. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.120 Just explain that to the fans. In order to bring 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.680 a player back from IR, he has to be on 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.640 the three when you make your first roster cuts. So 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.920 Rico had to be on the team on Saturday at 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.080 three zero one or else he would be lost for 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.200 the year. So they waited until Sunday and they moved 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.120 him to IR. The reason why they cut Kellen Moore 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.400 is because he's a vested veteran, which I think even 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.160 the most biased Kellen Moore supporter would agree. He doesn't 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.960 have much of a market outside this building. Cooper Rush 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.600 is a rookie. If you have not accumulated four years 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.120 of service in the NFL, you're subject to the waiver wire, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.880 which means any team that is interested in you can 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.040 put in a claim and there's nothing you can do. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.640 You can offer to outbid the other team, blah blah blah. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.120 If the Steelers claim him, he's a Steeler, that's it. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.560 So the Cowboys were far more confident that if they 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.480 cut Kellen Moore, they could get him back in a 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.640 couple of days than if they cut Cooper Rush, which 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.760 proved out to be true. I mean, there's no doubt 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.960 in my mind that multiple teams would have put acclaim 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.520 on Cooper Rush had he been cut. So in terms 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.880 of again, in terms of the mechanics of the whole thing, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.800 it worked out flawlessly. Why is it I thought that 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:06.040 we're making progress and then just kidding it might be 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:11.160 back just kidding. Um, I did get it pretty excited. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.800 But the way I see it, and I know Nick, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.280 you're about to get into it, But the way I 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.840 see it, it's like, why you just explain if they 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:24.400 cut Cooper Rush, he definitely wouldn't be back here. Yeah, 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.760 I think that's for sure. They said, now Kellen Moore, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.120 is it, Oh yeah, obviously going to be back here, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.680 right the Cowboys. The Cowboys are the only ones that 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.240 want him, and that's for sure. He was gonna still 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.640 be there and they'll be able to bring him back. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.840 And you're about to get into this argument before we 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.560 do that, though, before we do that real quick, I 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.240 want to tie you up the other side of that. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.960 Is there any concern, yeah, with the fact that Rico 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.200 is now going to eye off for what was a 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.480 concussion that happened what two weeks ago. I think I 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.600 don't agree with the move at all and on on 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.200 that end, and the Kellen Moore end of course, but 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.040 the Rico part, like you know and less, there's something 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.520 we don't know because I think Jason Garrett has said 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.320 he's making progress. So unless he's he's going to go 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.480 to a neurologist or something that we're not we haven't 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.400 heard about that this is a one of those type 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.880 of concussions that's ongoing. But he's tweeting around about how 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.560 great you know it is to be on the team 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.320 and stuff like that, So I don't know what to 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.720 make about that. But the guy needs to practice. He 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.520 needs to be on the practice field, and I think 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.960 that they're they've mishandled this in my opinion, because I 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.320 think that he needs the eight weeks of practices more 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.600 than anybody. And just to be clear, when he's on 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.720 IR designated return, he cannot practice during that time. He 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.760 can practice after six weeks. After six you have six 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.280 weeks he's gonna be sitting around and can't practice. After 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.600 six weeks, you're you are eligible to begin a three 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.600 week practice window. If six weeks elapse and they still 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.280 don't feel comfortable, then he'll continue to sit, but he 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.080 is eligible to start practicing after weeks. Yeah, but then 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.040 you look at it, what other move could they have 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.200 made for them to be able to bring that veteran 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.480 guy back, which would be Kellen Moore Asia point. Yeah, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.200 and it is a good point you start thinking about, 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.360 let's start looking at this roster. Find me a guy 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.480 you think you can can make this kind of move 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.639 with that you can cut, that you that you have 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.520 flexibility to cut, understanding the other guys you have, they're 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.240 going to be suspended the first couple of weeks. There's 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.760 a lot going on with this team. Maybe maybe Charles Tapper. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.760 Maybe I'm not certain that a Charles Tapper would would 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.160 clear waivers. Right, well, I'm not certain that I care. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:34.480 I'm just saying Byron Bell. Possibly. My point to all 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.119 of this is that Jason Garrett spent ten years in 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.440 this league as a backup quarterback. Wade Wilson played twenty 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.480 seven years or whatever. He was mostly a backup quarterback. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.480 We saw this team a season get derailed in twenty 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.240 fifteen because they didn't have a backup quarterback and Kellen 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.399 Moore was one of the guys that they tried to 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.600 bring in. It's like you're telling us that they really 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.400 like Kellen Moore, but at the same time, he's the 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.720 one player of all of this fifty three. He's the 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.520 one player that you're gonna leave out there. It's why 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.800 I said earlier on this guy is patio furniture. He 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.119 is a lawn chair. Because your lawn chair that you 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.160 put outside of your house, you know, you can serve 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:16.800 as a purpose. You can sit on it. I mean, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.199 it's fine, it's a chair, but you don't care if 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.200 it gets rained one. You don't definitely care if someone 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:22.960 comes and steals it, because if you did, you'd put 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.040 it in your house. So you just stuck it outside 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.560 because you're like, well, it doesn't matter. I mean, take 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.360 it if you want, but we don't really think you're 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.159 gonna take it because it's really not that great of 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.960 a lawn chair. So just go ahead and just you 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.000 know whatever, when it's time that we want to bring 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.160 it out, we'll bring it back in. Because they're trying 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.440 to tell us that this guy is an important position. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:42.840 Now he's gonna come back and he's gonna be the 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.840 number two quarterback. I don't understand at all why if 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.000 Kellen Moore is a guy you like, you should have 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.240 kept him. If you don't like him, then just leave 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.000 him out there. It makes no sense to me at all. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:00.119 That doesn't make sense. They see his inner beauty, he 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.160 out there and there's no they I mean, like one guy. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:05.960 They're just trying to like rub the tell me of 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.160 the offensive coordinator. I mean, like make a call, like 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.800 if you don't think he's that good, then just we'll 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.080 move on and find a guy that is good. Yeah, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.160 I understand how they did it like that. That makes sense. 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.640 I mean they were smart. I think about how they 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.320